Steinbeck’s collection of short stories captures his Salinas Valley, viewing it from various vantage points: a quiet family ranch, a hispanic renegade’s fearful eyes, a smoke-colored corpse hanging from a tree, or a garden of carefully mended flowers. The end product is a clearly detailed picture of this specific time in the American story [...]
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The Long Valley
Posted in Literature, Short Story, Uncategorized, tagged John Steinbeck, Patriotism on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My Pocket Watch
Posted in Art, Europe, Faith, Germany, Life, Nurnberg, Short Story, Travel on July 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Invented in Nürnberg by Peter Henlein around 1504, the Pocket Watch made time portable for every man. No longer dictated by the ringing bells of the city’s cathedrals or tall towers, the important people of the day could take Time with them in their pockets, to manage, control, and organize.
When I was 17, traveling through [...]
Learning to Speak from a Stone (Or for the creatively uninclined and those apt to assume I am taking Drugs…”My thoughts and reflections on learning a new Language”
Posted in Short Story on September 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I sit and listen. This piece of driftwood prods my back in just such a way that I cannot be completely comfortable. But that is the only complaint I can register of this moment. The dome-like evening sky amplifies the steady lapping of the ocean against itself. It approaches and retreats violently, gurgling over a choir of [...]
